Photo Bucket

[Sawyer Rob]

Ransom??? I've got three photo bucket accounts, when they were making the "change" I was notified and had the opportunity to do as I wished with my picts...

I did NOTHING, why? because I had brains enough to BACK UP ALL OF THE PICTS I PUT ON PHOTO BUCKET!!

IF you didn't do the same, that's ON YOU!

Why should anyone be crying because a company wants to be paid for a service they are offering?? Do YOU work for FREE?

You should be THANKING them for all the FREE years you got to use them!!

SR

 

[ovrszd]

Naive end users tend to not bother reading the fine print along with the typical boilerplate nomenclature in the 'Terms of Service' and User Agreements...and or have someone explain to them what it means when they say something like: "changes can be made at any time without notice etc.,etc..."

Yep. But it's still misleading. And it's intentional. That's enough for me. If Photobucket contacted me today and said I'm back in, I'd not post another pic to their site. Remember, I'm the Neanderthal.

 

[ovrszd]

Ransom??? I've got three photo bucket accounts, when they were making the "change" I was notified and had the opportunity to do as I wished with my picts...

I did NOTHING, why? because I had brains enough to BACK UP ALL OF THE PICTS I PUT ON PHOTO BUCKET!!

IF you didn't do the same, that's ON YOU!

Why should anyone be crying because a company wants to be paid for a service they are offering?? Do YOU work for FREE?

You should be THANKING them for all the FREE years you got to use them!!

SR

I would never give a company my pics. I always retain them.

I have no beef with Photobucket. I simply don't use them.

 

[/pine]

FWIW...without reading every word of any terms of service and or end user agreement(s)...It is possible that by just creating an account and uploading an image...the end user "could" be surrendering legal rights to said image...
I have never used an image hosting service so I have never studied any of their legalese...
Most digital media photo contests word their agreements that way...!

BTW...If anyone is familiar with using an FTP client...the best option for sharing anything on the Internet is from a remote server...for as little as $4-$5 /month you can get complete web hosting with unlimited data ...which includes unlimited use of an e-mail server...use a domain if you have one or just an IP address...upload all your data using FTP to the server then just link your images and videos to directories on the server...send or post the links to anyone...

 

[AndyM1]

Thanks for the response Wagtail. I understand a litttle about business models but it's seems a little like the bait and switch to offer hosting for free and then change it. I will just miss seeing all the photos.

 

[bcp]

Photobucket addresses complaints over new policy that charges heavy users $400

The service had previously been free and supported by ads.

But 75 percent of Photobucket's costs originated from "non-paying users leveraging 3rd party hosting," Corpus added. And it resulted in "zero revenue."

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I can't believe some one would cry over "being told" what was going to happen, then they do NOTHING and whine about it later!

Talk about an entitled mentality!! AMAZING! lol

SR

 

[PILOON]

Naive end users tend to not bother reading the fine print along with the typical boilerplate nomenclature in the 'Terms of Service' and User Agreements...and or have someone explain to them what it means when they say something like: "changes can be made at any time without notice etc.,etc..."

Since those agreements are written by lawyers I'd have to hire a lawyer to understand what they are saying or better yet what they are hiding.

 

[oosik]

I've never used a service such as Photo Bucket. The reason - I have a Seagate 5 TB backup external storage device that all my pics are on. I've never tried to access my computer via my cell phone or anybody else's cell phone. Definitely accessed my computer via other folks computer and downloaded pics and documents - no trouble there.

It can't be that much easier to access documents/pics when stored on somebody else's device - Photo Bucket - than accessing them on your own device.

It reminds me of storing my tools in somebody else's storage shed because their shed is a little closer to my work site. As opposed to having a mobile storage shed and bringing it to the work site every day. What if somebody breaks into their shed and steals my tools or a large tree falls across their long driveway and I can't get to their shed or they turn out to be a bad egg and sell my tools.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I use to be a member of a forestry site, they have a lot of saw millers ect. there, in fact the owner of the site came to another site and asked me to come to his site and also post there...

I would post picts there, just like I do here. It was weird, I'd post a pict., it would show for a day or so, then not show after that. I would go back and relink to the pict. and it would show again, but only for a short time. Some friends emailed me and told me THEY were having the same problem.

I started looking at the actual link that I posted and noticed that a couple letters would change in the link, so with further investigation I figured out some one was changing them after I posted them!

Finally, the OWNER of the site, told me I couldn't post picts from a pict. hosting site, I had to load the picts. directly to his site, AND then I learned that once THAT was done, HE became the owner of the picts!!

UNACCEPTABLE, and that ended me going to that site! They can stick THAT rule where the sun don't shine!

SR